Fight schedule

Thursday, Dec. 19, 2002 | 9 a.m.

Updated Dec. 19, 2002

Friday

At Osaka, Japan, Masamori Tokuyama, Japan, vs. Gerry Penalosa, Philippines, 12, for Tokuyama's WBA junior bantamweight title; Noel Arambulet, Venezuela, vs. Keitaro Hoshino, Japan, 12, for Arambulet's WBA strawweight title.

At Miami, (ESPN2), Joel Casamayor, Miami, vs. Yoni Vargas, Mexico, 12, junior welterweights.

At Aibonito, Puerto Rico, Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rico, vs. Valentin Leon, Mexico, 10, flyweights.

Dec. 27

At the Orleans, Las Vegas, TBA.

Jan. 3

At Norman, Okla., (ESPN2), Charles Shufford, Las Vegas, vs. Lawrence Clay-Bey, Boston, 10, heavyweights.

Jan. 4

At Washington, (HBO), DeMarcus Corley, Washington, vs. Randall Bailey, Washington, 12, junior welterweights; Felix Machado, Mexico, vs. Luis Perez, Puerto Rico, for Machado's IBF junior bantamweight title; Rosendo Alvarez, Mexico, vs. Beibis Mendoza, Colombia, 12, for Alvarez's WBA junior flyweight title.

Jan. 10

At Galveston, Texas, Reggie Johnson, Houston, vs. Demetrius Jenkins, New Orleans, 10, light heavyweights.

Jan. 11

At Philadelphia, (PPV), Bernard Hopkins, Philadelphia, vs. Morrade Hakkar, France, for Hopkins' WBC, WBA and IBF middleweight titles.

Jan. 13

At Tokyo, Japan, Sirimongkol Singmanussak, Thailand, vs. Yongsoo Choi, Japan, 12, for Singmanussak's WBC junior lightweight title.

Jan. 16

At Los Angeles, (HBO), Oscar Larios, Mexico, vs. Marcos Licona, Mexico, 12, for Larios' WBC super bantamweight title.

Jan. 17

At Memphis, Tenn., Thomas Hearns, Detroit, vs. Thomas Reid, Jackson, Tenn., 10, cruiserweights.

Jan. 18

At Melbourne, Australia, (Showtime), Kostya Tszyu, Australia, vs. James Leija, San Antonio, Texas, 12, for Tszyu's WBC, WBA and IBF junior welterweight titles.

At Essen, Germany, Artur Grigorian, Germany, vs. Matt Zegan, Poland, 12, lightweights; Michel Trabant, Germany, vs. Alessandro Duran, Italy, 12, welterweights.

Jan. 24

At Philadelphia, Anthony Thompson, Philadelphia, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

Jan. 25

At Temecula, Calif., (HBO), Vernon Forrest, Atlanta, vs. Ricardo Mayorga, Nicaragua, for Forrest's WBC welterweight title; James Toney, Ann Arbor, Mich., vs. Vassiliy Jirov, Kazikhastan, 12, for Jirov's IBF cruiserweight title.

At Reno, Michael Grant, New York, vs. TBA, 10, heavyweights.

Jan. 28

At London, Howard Eastman, England, vs. Erland Betare, France, 12, middleweights.

Jan. 31

At Atlantic City, (ESPN2), Charles Brewer, Philadelphia, vs. Etianne Whitaker, Warren, Ohio, 10, super middleweights; Miguel Figueroa, Camden, N.J., vs. Scott DePompe, West Milford, N.J., 10, junior welterweights.

Feb. 1

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (PPV), Juan Manuel Marquez, Mexico, vs. Manuel Medina, Mexico, 12, for vacant IBF featherweight title; Carlos Hernandez, Bellflower, Calif., vs. David Santos, St. Petersburg, Fla., 12, for vacant IBF junior lightweight title; Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Cesar Bazan, Mexico, 12, junior welterweights.

At Ledyard, Conn., (Showtime), Rocky Juarez, Houston, vs. TBA, 10, featherweights.

Feb. 8

At Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, (HBO), Shane Mosley, Pomona, Calif., vs. Raul Marquez, Houston, 10, junior middleweights; Antonio Margarito, Mexico, vs. Andrew Lewis, Ghana, 10, welterweights.

Feb. 15

At TBA, (HBO), Tim Austin, Cincinnati, vs. Rafael Marquez, Mexico, 12, for Austin's IBF bantamweight title.

Feb. 22

At Memphis, Tenn., (Showtime), Mike Tyson, Catskills, N.Y., vs. Cliff Etienne, Baton Rouge, La., 10, heavyweights.

March 1

At the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, (PPV), John Ruiz, Las Vegas, vs. Roy Jones Jr., Pensacola, Fla., 12, for Ruiz's WBA heavyweight title.

At Berlin, Germany, Sven Ottke, Germany, vs. Byron Mitchell, Washington, 12, for Ottke's IBF and Mitchell's WBA super middleweight titles.

March 7

At Montreal, Canada, (ESPN2), Leonard Dorin, Canada, vs. Miguel Callist, Panama, 12, for Dorin's WBA lightweight title.

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